Reponsive to CHANGE?! AHHH!

Darwin foretold the messiah!?

Is that 'audacity of hope' change?

How about HOPE?

Ah, a fresh landscape, like newly fallen snow, without a pun in sight.

From Darwin's mouth to Obama's ears.

Hey Charles,

What about an Iphone review?

re: #6 jorline

From Darwin's mouth to Obama's ears.

Racist oppressor!

My civics teacher told me that there were actually three constants:

death, taxes and change.

How dare you defile the Great Odumbo!

re: #9 buzzsawmonkey

I did not realize that Obama's ears represented an evolutionary adaptation.

It's likely similar in nature to bat sonar.

It's Thursday
It's After-noon
It's Open

whats not to like ?

re: #12 HugoChavez

How dare you defile the Great Odumbo!

Can he fly? 'Cause he sure as hell ain't an elephant (GOP).

re: #10 HugoChavez

Racist oppressor!

Looks who's talking...go take a siesta.

It also helps to be able to to take a punch.

At least he doesn't wear road kill on his head.

re: #17 Tyler_Durden

It also helps to be able to to take a punch.

considering where Obama is right now, that would be a Hawaiin punch

I have change in my wallet, does that help?

Let's declare this thread a pun-free zone!

And Obama's promising a lot of each.

Suprisingly the main proponent for evolution was not Darwin , but his nephew .

Darwin if anything put forward Natural Adaption , and survival of the fittest .......you may call that evolution , but it is all created by a creator ./ Unless of course someone can explain WHERE the Electron gets its charge from .

Recommended Reading :

"The Encyclopedia of Ignorance " .

Fortunately for us all , neither Creationist nor Evolutionist can truly prove their case .

None may understand THAT ....but it is a good thing .

re: #21 Cygnus

Let's declare this thread a pun-free zone!

And we had better declare it a boob-free zone, as well, just in case.

Oops, my #22 was in reply to #11 Sharmuta

re: #24 A Kiwi Infidel

And we had better declare it a boob-free zone, as well, just in case.

Good idea.

How about exact change?

Since the beginning of recorded history, man has used his abilities as a toolmaker to try to ensure for himself a continued rise in his standard of living and in the number of his possessions. The rise has been a steady one, interrupted only by periods of war, plague or famine. Communities have accepted and used inventions, which would contribute to this pattern of development and rejected those which would not.

The above is from a book and PBS TV series called "Connections". One hopes that our community is adaptable enough to prosper in this changing environment.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

— Charles Darwin

Nice quote. Hopefully it will help to shut up the endless repetition of the inaccurate non-Darwinian phrase "survival of the fittest." Strength, intelligence, and "fitness" have nothing to do with it -- but rather having the genetic capacity for the kinds of phenotype variations which make you better able to eat and reproduce than another species potentially occupying the emerging ecological niche.

Sounds complicated, but basically it means: Can you go with the flow?

re: #25 buzzsawmonkey

Moonbat sonar.

And may be a moonbat-free zone as well?

Just in case

re: #24 A Kiwi Infidel

And we had better declare it a boob-free zone, as well, just in case.

Too late, we are already talking about Obama.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

— Charles Darwin

Of course to be responsive to change a species needs to be strong and intelligent or have a good friend who exhibits those qualities. Yada, yada, yada.

re: #21 Cygnus

Let's declare this thread a pun-free zone!

But then it will become a fun-free zone.

re: #24 A Kiwi Infidel

And we had better declare it a boob-free zone, as well, just in case.

Sexist oppressor!

re: #28 Seattle Rep

How about exact change?

If you do not have the exact change you can get off under the bus

re: #34 zombie

But then it will become a fun-free zone.

I was just feeling the pain of some those poor people on the other thread.

Damn, first comment already deleted? Did someone chime in "first"?

re: #34 zombie

I agree with Zombie! "To pun or not to pun, that's the question! Whether 'tis more noble to utter a horrendous word-play or to make an off-colored limerick..." with apologies to W^m S.

Al-Jazeera plans coverage for DNC

[Link: www.rockymountainnews.com...]

Talk about being in the bag or the Home team!

re: #38 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Damn, first comment already deleted? Did someone chime in "first"?

that they did

Listening to Hannity on the way home and it seems the Obama is throwing a hissy fit over the new book Obama Nation.Also pleased to hear that Laura Ingraham isn't referring to him as a "nice guy" anymore.Called him a narcissist. lol, ya don't say.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

This also explains why we have never ran low on politicians.

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him

Crocodiles and sharks and horseshoe crabs, among other ancient species might argue with that. Not to mention Amoebas...

re: #38 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Damn, first comment already deleted? Did someone chime in "first"?

Dont think so, I missed it, I had read it but didnt trigger any alarms so cant remember what the offense may have been.

...the sweet release valve of the Open Thread.

re: #44 Kenneth

I guess things are Shaking here...

Interesting -

Russia says concerned by U.S. cargoes to Georgia

Russia`s General Staff said on Thursday it was concerned by the type of cargoes the United States was airlifting to Georgia and said Russia`s Black Sea fleet would take commands only from the Russian President

Ukraine`s president Viktor Yushchenko had signed a decree requiring authorization for Russian warships to return to their base in Sevastopol, a Crimean port which is part of Ukraine.

Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy head of Russia`s general staff, told a news conference it was legitimate for Russian peacekeepers to be in the Georgian port town of Poti for intelligence operations.

The General Staff had previously denied Russian troops were in Poti.

[Link: www.unian.net...]

re: #24 A Kiwi Infidel

And we had better declare it a boob-free zone, as well, just in case.

Penist Thread!

re: #40 Nevergiveup

Al-Jazeera plans coverage for DNC

[Link: www.rockymountainnews.com...]

Talk about being in the bag or the Home team!

Look who they signed up as the "political correspondant"!

re: #30 zombie

Nice quote. Hopefully it will help to shut up the endless repetition of the inaccurate non-Darwinian phrase "survival of the fittest." Strength, intelligence, and "fitness" have nothing to do with it -- but rather having the genetic capacity for the kinds of phenotype variations which make you better able to eat and reproduce than another species potentially occupying the emerging ecological niche.

Sounds complicated, but basically it means: Can you go with the flow?

But fittest in this context does not necessarily refer to fitness as in physical fitness, which I assume you mean above. I thought the fittest referred to the choice that fit the situation better. i.e. The adaptation that allowed for better breeding strategy was the 'fit' one.

BTW - Lolcat can see you, but doesn't know which one you are.

re: #38 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Damn, first comment already deleted? Did someone chime in "first"?

Yes and no. I merely said that it helps to be the first or the best in response to the quote.

Oh well, I thought it was witty enough.

re: #44 Kenneth

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him

Exactly what I said when I buried my Mother's nasty assed dead poodle.....

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change you can believe in.

— Charles Darwin

re: #44 Kenneth

Shatner is so out there he didn't need that five year mission.

re: #44 Kenneth

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him

I doubt I'll ever recover from that...GAH!

re: #41 sattv4u2

Well - sorta. I thought it was a rather clever use of the word and on topic at that.

re: #35 livefreeor die

Sexist oppressor!

Okay, free boob zone then. Satisfied now?

re: #52 CyanSnowHawk

But fittest in this context does not necessarily refer to fitness as in physical fitness, which I assume you mean above. I thought the fittest referred to the choice that fit the situation better. i.e. The adaptation that allowed for better breeding strategy was the 'fit' one.

BTW - Lolcat can see you, but doesn't know which one you are.

I believe our zombie is more of a "loner" type of zombie. Tends to not go along with those crowds of groaning, drooling buffoons to get it's meals.

re: #36 A Kiwi Infidel

If you do not have the exact change you can get off under the bus

An Ethanol powered bus?

Octopuses have two legs and six arms

re: #18 HugoChavez

At least he doesn't wear road kill on his head.

Nice, is that a wolverine, or are you just happy to see me?

re: #45 Peacekeeper

Crocodiles and sharks and horseshoe crabs, among other ancient species might argue with that. Not to mention Amoebas...

And these guys, dont forget the "living dinosaur"

re: #62 jcm

Octopuses have two legs and six arms

Octopi

re: #21 Cygnus

Let's declare this thread a pun-free zone!

use a pun..go to prison

The PUNishment is prison?

re: #67 Ben Hur

The PUNishment is prison?

OK, that sucked.

Real ramen is good.

Support Badpun Control Inc.

re: #65 astronmr20

Octopi

Octopussy!
SFW

re: #62 jcm

Octopuses have two legs and six arms

OK, but they still skid across the ice very nicely.

re: #62 jcm

Octopuses have two legs and six arms

Too chewy.

re: #33 Scorch

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

— Charles Darwin

Of course to be responsive to change a species needs to be strong and intelligent or have a good friend who exhibits those qualities. Yada, yada, yada.

Not true. Sometimes extra strength can be a burden. In certain isolated island environments, once huge creatures (elephants, giant sloths, hippos, even humans) over time evolve to become smaller and weaker, because a small creature can better survive on the island's limited resources. It's happened many times in evolutionary history -- "dwarfism" or progressive miniaturization (and hence weakening) of a species.

Same for intelligence: birds evolved to become dumber and dumber over time compared to their ancestors, because maintaining a big, energy-sucking heavy brain rendered them less able to fly and eat in sufficient amounts to keep going. It was evolutionarily more useful to have a lightweight brain (and the ease of flying that accompanied it) than a big brain. The extra intelligence didn't help, in their particular ecological niche (i.e. being airborne).

re: #44 Kenneth

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him

Now who has the freakin shovel?

re: #53 Honorary Yooper

Yes and no. I merely said that it helps to be the first or the best in response to the quote.

Oh well, I thought it was witty enough.

I'd agree.

re: #62 jcm

Octopuses have two legs and six arms

Yeah, yeah. And Pluto is not a planet.

We know what we know, so y'all can just stop trying to sell us all that new bunk.

re: #9 buzzsawmonkey

They're retroevolved from a jackass.

re: #75 zombie

Not true. Sometimes extra strength can be a burden. In certain isolated island environments, once huge creatures (elephants, giant sloths, hippos, even humans) over time evolve to become smaller and weaker, because a small creature can better survive on the island's limited resources. It's happened many times in evolutionary history -- "dwarfism" or progressive miniaturization (and hence weakening) of a species.

Same for intelligence: birds evolved to become dumber and dumber over time compared to their ancestors, because maintaining a big, energy-sucking heavy brain rendered them less able to fly and eat in sufficient amounts to keep going. It was evolutionarily more useful to have a lightweight brain (and the ease of flying that accompanied it) than a big brain. The extra intelligence didn't help, in their particular ecological niche (i.e. being airborne).

That explains how liberals came to be. ;)

re: #75 zombie

Not true. Sometimes extra strength can be a burden. In certain isolated island environments, once huge creatures (elephants, giant sloths, hippos, even humans) over time evolve to become smaller and weaker, because a small creature can better survive on the island's limited resources. It's happened many times in evolutionary history -- "dwarfism" or progressive miniaturization (and hence weakening) of a species.

Same for intelligence: birds evolved to become dumber and dumber over time compared to their ancestors, because maintaining a big, energy-sucking heavy brain rendered them less able to fly and eat in sufficient amounts to keep going. It was evolutionarily more useful to have a lightweight brain (and the ease of flying that accompanied it) than a big brain. The extra intelligence didn't help, in their particular ecological niche (i.e. being airborne).

Thanks. This helps explain the Democrats.

re: #73 Honorary Yooper

OK, but they still skid across the ice very nicely.

Stinky hands?

re: #21 Cygnus

Let's declare this thread a pun-free zone!

A cat found a mysterious sweater, but the mystery was soon unravelled.

'PM never asked for rabbi's blessing'

News reports that Georgia's Prime Minister Vladimer (Lado) Gurgenidze called Israel to ask for a blessing from a prominent haredi spiritual leader are totally fictitious and were timed to take advantage of Georgia's plight, said sources close to Gurgenidze Thursday

Let the Jew baiting begin.

re: #64 A Kiwi Infidel

And these guys, dont forget the "living dinosaur"

And our old friend the coelacanth.

re: #83 Dustyvet

A cat found a mysterious sweater, but the mystery was soon unravelled.

My friends got me a sweater for my birthday. It was better than the screamer they got me the year before.

re: #82 scottishbuzzsaw

Stinky hands?

Stinky has hands?

re: #75 zombie

Not true. Sometimes extra strength can
be a burden.

Hulk burdened by extra strength. Puny humans leave Hulk alone! Rarrrr!

We lose out to the obamessiah's intelligent design for the country

re: #40 Nevergiveup

Al-Jazeera plans coverage for DNC

[Link: www.rockymountainnews.com...]

Talk about being in the bag or the Home team!

If they want to sample the local cuisine, serve them a nice hot plate of Rocky Mountain Oysters.

Wait just a sec here. Those responsive to CHANGE are most likely to survive? Nah nah nah!

re: #60 astronmr20

I believe our zombie is more of a "loner" type of zombie. Tends to not go along with those crowds of groaning, drooling buffoons to get it's meals.

Can I please get off under the bus?

OT: 6th Inning White Sox 3 Royals 2

7th Inning White Sox 9 Royals 2 after Back-to-Back-to-back-to-back home runs! Thome 3 run homer, followed by Konerko, followed by Alexi Ramirez and finally by Juan Uribe!

Go White Sox!

Oh yes, I am a loner zombie.

re: #65 astronmr20

Octopi

Octopus Pie

re: #93 Conservative in Liberal Hands

OT: 6th Inning White Sox 3 Royals 2

7th Inning White Sox 9 Royals 2 after Back-to-Back-to-back-to-back home runs! Thome 3 run homer, followed by Konerko, followed by Alexi Ramirez and finally by Juan Uribe!

Go White Sox!

Hooray {local sports team}! Good job on that {goal/kick/basket/hit}!

re: #93 Conservative in Liberal Hands

Go Yanks Angels

re: #96 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Sorry... it's a Chicago thingie...

...most responsive to change.

So parking meters are at the top of the heap. Who knew?

re: #94 zombie

Oh yes, I am a loner zombie.

The Lone Zombie

Wouldn't an octipi have 3.14159 arms?

re: #90 Cygnus

If they want to sample the local cuisine, serve them a nice hot plate of Rocky Mountain Oysters.

They should be given nothing but pork products. Invite them to a pig roast.

re: #63 Honorary Yooper

Nice, is that a wolverine, or are you just happy to see me?

Yes, that was meant for you.

Change of topic, a blonde joke.

A blonde lady motorist was about two hours from San Diego when she was flagged down by a man whose truck had broken down. The man walked up to the car and asked, 'Are you going to San Diego?'

'Sure,' answered the blonde, 'do you need a lift?'

'Not for me. I'll be spending the next three hours fixing my truck My problem is I've got two chimpanzees in the back which have to be taken to the San Diego Zoo. They're a bit stressed already so I don't want to keep them on the road all day. Could you possibly take them to the zoo for me? I'll give you $100 for your trouble.'

'I'd be happy to,' said the blonde. So the two chimpanzees were ushered into the back seat of the blonde's car and carefully strapped into their seat belts. Off they went.

Five hours later, the truck driver was driving through the heart of San Diego when suddenly he was horrified! There was the blonde walking down the street and holding hands with the two chimps, much to the amusement of a big crowd.

With a screech of brakes he pulled off the road and ran over to the blonde. What the heck are you doing here?' he demanded, 'I gave you $100 to take these chimpanzees to the zoo.'

'Yes, I know you did,' said the blonde,' but we had money left over - so now we're going to SeaWorld.

re: #96 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Hooray {local sports team}! Good job on that {goal/kick/basket/hit}!

Just like in the old days in the Bay Area: you could make a friend instantly, and fit into any crowd, just by walking up to people at a party (or just about any social setting) and saying, "Forty-fuckin'-Niners! Alright!"

re: #60 astronmr20

I believe our zombie is more of a "loner" type of zombie. Tends to not go along with those crowds of groaning, drooling buffoons to get it's meals.

Okay, explain both Folsom Street Fair and Up Your Alley if zombie doesn't mix with crowds of groaning drooling buffoons.

re: #78 Silhouette

Yeah, yeah. And Pluto is not a planet.

We know what we know, so y'all can just stop trying to sell us all that new bunk.

Does someone need a hug hug hug hug?
;-)

re: #102 Silhouette

Wouldn't an octipi have 3.14159 arms?

LOL!

re: #95 Kenneth

Octopus Pie

What's it called if you put more than one in the pie?

re: #101 buzzsawmonkey

Gays are still imprisoned in Cuba. Castro just could stand them.

Q: How do you catch a unique rabbit?
A: U-nique up on him.

Q: How do you catch a tame deer?
A: Tame way.

re: #107 zombie

Just
like in the old days in the Bay Area: you could make a friend
instantly, and fit into any crowd, just by walking up to people at a
party (or just about any social setting) and saying, "Forty-fuckin'-Niners! Alright!"

Same thing in Philly, you just have to start chanting "E!" "A!" "G!" "L!" "E!" "S!"

What's the matter Darwin lover? Why don't you evolve some wings and fly away?

[Link: farm1.static.flickr.com...]

re: #107 zombie

Just like in the old days in the Bay Area: you could make a friend instantly, and fit into any crowd, just by walking up to people at a party (or just about any social setting) and saying, "Forty-fuckin'-Niners! Alright!"

Go niners.

re: #107 zombie

Just like in the old days in the Bay Area: you could make a friend instantly, and fit into any crowd, just by walking up to people at a party (or just about any social setting) and saying, "Forty-fuckin'-Niners! Alright!"

Like showing up at a college party and saying "Fuck Bush!"

Well, college faculty party anyways.

re: #115 Ben Hur

What's the matter Darwin lover? Why don't you evolve some wings and fly away?

[Link: farm1.static.flickr.com...]

I though this was serious until I read that last line, LOL

re: #116 debutaunt

Go niners.

GO PACKERS! WOOOO!

re: #105 buzzsawmonkey

Some of the last surviving wooly mammoths were apparently "dwarf mammoths" (great oxymoron!) on some island off of Siberia.

I got two words for ya: Flores Island:

In September 2003, at Liang Bua Cave in western Flores, paleoanthropologists discovered skeletons of a previously unknown hominid species. Homo floresiensis, affectionately termed hobbits after the small characters in the Lord of the Rings, appear to be miniaturized versions of Homo erectus standing about one metre tall. They may have existed until as recently as 11,000 BC. Local reports of elf-like people, the Ebu Gogo, or the Orang Pendek of Sumatra, have caused speculation that Flores man may have survived into the historical period, or even to the present. The discovery has been published in the October 28, 2004, issue of Nature magazine and the April 2005 issue of the National Geographic Magazine.[3] Flores was also a habitat of the extinct Stegodon dwarf elephant until approximately 18,000 years ago. It also was the habitat of species of giant rodents. It is speculated by scientists that limited resources drove the few species that lived upon the island to gigantism and dwarfism. [4]

re: #111 debutaunt

What's it called if you put more than one in the pie?

Octopus Salad.

re: #117 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Like showing up at a college party and saying "Fuck Bush!"

Well, college faculty party anyways.

It works at a lot of frat parties. Different kinda bush, though.

- Name? - Abu Dalah Sarafi.
- Sex? - Four times a week.
- No, no, no... male or female? - Male, female... sometimes camel...

[Link: www.sexgott-or-not.com...]

:))

re: #111 debutaunt

What's it called if you put more than one in the pie?

Munudo?

re: #119 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

GO PACKERS! WOOOO!

Go Colts!
/if anyone posts ' go Raiders' remember..they just might..

re: #119 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

GO PACKERS! WOOOO!

That was a running joke on MST3K for years.

re: #111 debutaunt

What's it called if you put more than one in the pie?

DP

re: #121 HugoChavez

Octopus Salad.

I have strict rules and don't speak to THUGS!

Then the"discovery institute" are surely doomed.

re: #127 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

DP

tsk tsk tsk...naughty boy.

re: #124 Dizzy26

Munudo?

Jeez - Pi-pie.

re: #129 hellosnackbar

Then the"discovery institute" are surely doomed.

They're an evolutionary dead end.

re: #128 debutaunt

I have strict rules and don't speak to THUGS!

And I don't speak to Zionist oppressors, I shoot them.

re: #126 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

That was a running joke on MST3K for years.

Giant Spider Invasion from season 8 has tons of them.

PACKERS WON THE SUPERBOWL!

re: #107 zombie

Creaky rocker on the porch time ...

I remember when Bill Walsh was coaching at Stanford and the 49ers absolutely sucked. The Giants too.

Here is a name from the past - Johnny LeMaster. That guy's ML career started with an inside the park home run at his first at bat.

It went down from there.

re: #133 HugoChavez

And I don't speak to Zionist oppressors, I shoot them.

You bastard!

re: #130 HugoChavez

tsk tsk tsk...naughty boy.

It means Delicious Pie.

Why? What did you think it means?

re: #125 HoosierHoops

Go Colts!
/if anyone posts ' go Raiders' remember..they just might..

Here in San Diego it is :

Go Chargers! And take the Padres with you!

re: #136 debutaunt

You bastard!

You, target practice.

re: #139 HugoChavez

You, target practice.

You crappy shot!

re: #120 zombie

I thought Homo floresiensis was determined to be just an unusually short homonid of some kind.

re: #133 HugoChavez

And I don't speak to Zionist oppressors, I shoot them.

smells like sulfur in here

re: #137 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

It means Delicious Pie.

Why? What did you think it means?

Well, it's given that the "pie" is delicious. Question is, is there enough pie for three of us?

re: #138 karmic_inquisitor

I yell Go Chargers, and my wife runs up my credit cards.

re: #142 jorline

smells like sulfur in here

Is that what it is.....damn, thought it was Menudo

re: #133 HugoChavez

and Kuffars.. you forgot them too...

Now here's a Hollywood movie I'd like to see:

Cult moviemaker Quentin Tarantino is poised to make a blood-spattered World War II epic starring Brad Pitt as the leader of a maverick U.S. unit of Jewish soldiers which scalps Nazis.

I know what week old Pizza smells like!

re: #141 CyanSnowHawk

I thought Homo floresiensis was determined to be just an unusually short homonid of some kind.

I wasn't clear. I meant just a short human, not an evolutionary offshoot hominid.

Hopa!

#1 deleted!

Nice try!

re: #142 jorline

smells like sulfur in here

Hugo must've cut the cheese.

re: #101 buzzsawmonkey

Zombie: a followup to your analysis of leftist anti-gay sentiment from the other day.
...
The equation of homosexuals with torture and Nazism may have been a function of SA leader Ernst Rohm's well-known homosexuality...

Also note the commonplace Nazi-esque fetish iconography at the events I covered (or what I dubbed in that instance "the 'vaguely Hitlerian Boy Scout' look"). Being tortured by Nazi guards is a fairly common fantasy in the "dungeon scene" in some bathhouses.

I think there used to be more overt Nazi paraphernalia at these things, but that has become so taboo that they now tone it done, or instead dress like '20s-era Brown Shirts, and so on.

re: #150 Ben Hur

Hopa!

#1 deleted!

Nice try!

See #53.

re: #151 Honorary Yooper

Hugo must've cut the cheese.

Ahhhh, I remember the good ol' days of DP.

That means "delicious pie" you know.

Holy crap! A female Georgian reporter is shot by a Russian sniper during a broadcast, and keeps on reporting!

Got a chess game in 7....bbl

re: #152 zombie

There is a famous (I think German) European film depicting one section of the SS murdering another because they were mainly homosexual.

Have you heard of that before?

re: #147 Kenneth

Now here's a Hollywood movie I'd like to see:

I have high hopes for Defiance.

re: #131 debutaunt

Jeez - Pi-pie.

Then there would be 3.14159 octopus in each one.

re: #155 Kenneth

Holy crap! A female Georgian reporter is shot by a Russian sniper during a broadcast, and keeps on reporting!

Yes - all proof that the Georgians are the aggressors.

re: #141 CyanSnowHawk

I thought Homo floresiensis was determined to be just an unusually short homonid of some kind.

Homonidphobe!
/

Dumping my American Airlines stock in 3...2...1

re: #157 Ben Hur

There is a famous (I think German) European film depicting one section of the SS murdering another because they were mainly homosexual.

Have you heard of that before?

That in fact happened, but I think it was in the SA. It was a move to consolidate power under Hitler. I will find some links.

Time to say goodnight. Got an aftework going away party to go to. Think I should be worried when three people leave their jobs in the same week?

re: #150 Ben Hur

Hopa!

#1 deleted!

Nice try!

That's weird. I could still see the #1 comment until I refreshed the whole page. Hitting the new comments button didn't remove it.

Using FireFox 3.0.1

re: #163 karmic_inquisitor

That in fact happened, but I think it was in the SA. It was a move to consolidate power under Hitler. I will find some links.

Yes.

It's based on an actual event.

That I remember.

re: #141 CyanSnowHawk

I thought Homo floresiensis was determined to be just an unusually short homonid of some kind.

That's exactly what it was. Which is my point: regular-sized hominids made it over to the island, and eventually evolved to become smaller.

Same thing happened with pygmies in Africa, who usually live on "mountain islands" surrounded by inaccessible swampland. The pygmies didn't appear out of nowhere, or emerge on a completely unique evolutionary track: they're eventually descended from regular-sized humans who evolved to be tiny.

re: #87 jorline

Stinky has hands?

Well, duh! How do you think he holds a broom?

re: #155 Kenneth

Holy crap! A female Georgian reporter is shot by a Russian sniper during a broadcast, and keeps on reporting!

Amazing!

re: #155 Kenneth

Holy crap! A female Georgian reporter is shot by a Russian sniper during a broadcast, and keeps on reporting!

Their worker's comp must suck.

re: #158 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

So am I. The story is truly amazing. Let's hope it lives up to it.

re: #164 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Worry only when they start buying you rounds and slapping you on the back...be safe BDVM.

re: #155 Kenneth

THAT is courage.

re: #125 HoosierHoops

Go Colts!

GO HOOSIERS :)

re: #168 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

Well, duh! How do you think he holds a broom?

He has a Nimbus 2000? I'm jealous.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- President Pervez Musharraf is expected to leave office in the next few days before Pakistan's Parliament takes up impeachment proceedings against him, following a breakthrough in secret talks designed to ease his departure from office, people familiar with the situation say

WSJ

re: #162 jorline

Dumping my American Airlines stock in 3...2...1

Story has been UPDATED!

re: #165 CyanSnowHawk

Lucky guy, Human is always interested to know.. what he don't know....

re: #175 Cygnus

He has a Nimbus 2000? I'm jealous.

Every good Slytherin knows that the Nimbus 2001 is better. Potter just got lucky!

/Severus Snape-Slytherin fan...I just hate Voldie.

re: #175 Cygnus

He has a Nimbus 2000? I'm jealous.

Firebolt's are where it's at.

re: #157 Ben Hur

There is a famous (I think German) European film depicting one section of the SS murdering another because they were mainly homosexual.

Have you heard of that before?

Yeah, I saw that film. Forget what it was called.

re: #157 Ben Hur

There is a famous (I think German) European film depicting one section of the SS murdering another because they were mainly homosexual.

Have you heard of that before?

Here is a decent summary:

Ernst Julius Röhm was a German military officer, and the commander and co-founder of the Nazi Sturmabteilung, or storm troopers — the SA, also known as 'Brownshirts'.

Ernst Röhm was one of the most prominent of a number of early Nazi party members who was a homosexual, and his homosexuality was ultimately the pretext used for his removal during the purge of the SA. The real reason was the threat he eventually posed to Hitler's authority. Having been outed in 1925, Röhm made little attempt to hide his sexuality. Despite Hitler's pretense of shock upon discovering his deputy's sexual orientation, he had in fact long known - probably since 1919 - that Röhm was homosexual.

During Röhm's tenure at the head of the SA, it has been suggested that a number of homosexual men (notably Karl Ernst, a former bouncer at a gay nightclub, and Edmund Heines) were appointed to and promoted within the SA as a result of high-level liaisons with powerful SA figures. Röhm's Brownshirt militia - mostly undisciplined soldiers and roughnecks from the city-slums - contained many gay men, and there was debauchery in the ranks. This was despite the openly anti-gay policies of the Nazis, exemplified by their strengthening of Paragraph 175 (criminalising homosexual acts) of the German Criminal Code of 1871.

Röhm was executed without trial during the purge of the SA — the so-called 'Night of the Long Knives' in June 1934.

In the wake of Röhm's execution, Hitler ordered the registration of homosexuals and the Gestapo was charged with the responsibility of creating dossiers on homosexuals and other 'asocials' in the Third Reich. The beginning of the Nazi terror against homosexuals was marked by the murder of Ernst Röhm.

Perhaps you all can help respond to an argument my friend is having with a young obama supporter. She nor I have the info to make any comments.
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OUR FRIEND WROTE TO HER ----
I think McCain is a war monger because he is so bent on continuing the Iraq war and at any cost. I am all for the Afghan war, ya know the Taliban…the ones who helped Al Qaeda attack us on 9-11…but Iraq is different. We sure made a mess…and well, we have to slowly but surely fix it. As we pull our troops out, we can train more Iraqi soldiers, and move on to fight the real enemy – Al Qaeda. Also, Sen. McCain talks about “dealing with Iran however we must deal with them.” He is going to continue what Bush couldn’t get done. I want a president who will pick diplomacy over pre-emptive invasion like we used to do in this country…back when we were an example for the world, ya know aspiring democracies. Now we are looked down upon and have very little to no respect.

The next president will appoint 2 justices to the supreme court, also…and I do not want a conservative on the bench keeping us stuck in the time warp of 1953. I want to see equal rights for gay people and you know the GOP does not fancy people like me in any way. Peeks…B and I want to adopt a child so badly – but we cannot. There is a law on the books here…and guess who wrote it? A Republican. It just isn’t fair. Also, I want more for the working man. The rich are seriously getting richer, the top 2%, and the poor are getting poorer…while the middle class is evaporating. Surely you see that. Minimum wage, benefits, unions – all going down the toilet and at the hands of the GOP. Look at Bush’s tax cuts. OMG What do they do for the middle class? NOTHING! And with Obama, he will NOT raise taxes on the middle class – that is a myth, anyone making under 250K a year will not be taxed, seniors making no more than 50K a year will not be taxed and the rest is on his site.

It is not just the youth who are desiring change…a lot of people are really tired of the way things are. High gas prices, the cost of groceries, college tuition and the list goes on. I know all about George Soros and all along everyone knew about Karl Rove and the good ol’ boys who worked on and groomed Mr. Bush. I am one of today’s youth and I don’t like to think of myself as a pawn…I like to think that I can see the trees for the forest. I cannot support an OLD man who will be four more years of what we have had. I am not happy today. I was not happy yesterday and I will not be happy tomorrow. Our America is in shambles right now and it has been…Bush and Co. have sold this country down the toilet to the Saudis and a lot of others I don’t even want to get into – Halliburton, Black Water, etc. Obama is about change, that is a fact. Did you know that McCain is about change as well? He has in one of his attack ads: “Don’t HOPE for change, VOTE for it.” So…McCain is about change, too…red alert red alert! J And as for the youth, can you remember the last election they came out in droves to support anyone? I can’t.

As for the medical aspect of all this, the healthcare, I think you are familiar with the Republican healthcare plan: Don’t get sick. Ya know, I don’t care what kind of person comes to a doctor/ER/clinic. They can be unemployed, lazy, an alcoholic, a leper, a felon, black, white, Chinese, poor, rich, gay or straight – anyone who needs healthcare or medical attention should receive it. We are giving prisoners at Guantanamo Bay top-notch medical care and our own people here in our lovely country are dying in our ER waiting rooms.

I like the UN. I think that the UN was a phenomenal idea and when used properly – it is a powerful force that means a lot. Bush ignored the UN and went into Iraq against the counsel of all the other nations, and look where we are today.

re: #167 zombie

That's exactly what it was. Which is my point: regular-sized hominids made it over to the island, and eventually evolved to become smaller.

Same thing happened with pygmies in Africa, who usually live on "mountain islands" surrounded by inaccessible swampland. The pygmies didn't appear out of nowhere, or emerge on a completely unique evolutionary track: they're eventually descended from regular-sized humans who evolved to be tiny.

Now I have to look it up. I thought I read somewhere that it was not a species that evolved off of humans.

BBIAB, or maybe not, I should get back to work.

re: #182 zombie

yes i can check tomorrow in archive... i know where it is in video-library....

re: #183 buzzsawmonkey

The Damned. Luchino Visconti.

Thank you.

good night, love ya all...

re: #155 Kenneth

Holy crap! A female Georgian reporter is shot by a Russian sniper during a broadcast, and keeps on reporting!

Isn't intentionally shooting reporters a war crime? Civilians?

re: #178 LeePro

Story has been UPDATED!

read the link LeePro...two different stories, although I'm glad they've changed that policy.

The Strongest Tribe: War, Politics, and the Endgame in Iraq (Hardcover)
by Bing West (Author)

From a universally respected combat journalist, a gripping history based on five years of front-line reporting about how the war was turned around–and the choice now facing America

During the fierce battle for Fallujah, Bing West asked an Iraqi colonel why the archterrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had fled in women’s clothes. The colonel pointed to a Marine patrol walking by and said, “Americans are the strongest tribe.”

In Iraq, America made mistake after mistake. Many gave up on the war. Then the war took a sharp U-turn. Two generals–David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno–displayed the leadership America expected. Bringing the reader from the White House to the fighting in the streets, this remarkable narrative explains the turnaround by U.S. forces.

In the course of fourteen extended trips over five years, West embedded with more than sixty front-line units, discussing strategy with generals and tactics with corporals. He provides an expert’s account of counterinsurgency, disposing of myths. By describing the characters and combat in city after city, West gives the reader an in-depth understanding that will inform the debate about the war. This is the definitive study of how American soldiers actually fought –a gripping and visceral book that changes the way we think about the war, and essential reading for understanding the next critical steps to be taken.

Has anyone here ever read those 2 books by Obama? I did. What a total waste of time. Plus, who in hell writes an autobiography by age 40, with such a miniscule list of accomplishments? That takes some audacity, right there. Seems to me, that if the RNC wants some darts to throw at BHO, those two books are a target rich environment.

re: #190 MandyManners

Yes. Yes it is. But only if Americans or Israelis do the shooting is it worth reporting.

re: #190 MandyManners

Isn't intentionally shooting reporters a war crime? Civilians?

Now, now, Mandy.

Haven't you been paying attention? "War Crimes" are only war crimes when Russian nationals are the victim.

I come back home from a six-hour temp job (sunburned again) and I see that the Soviet Russian state is pushing for a Carthaginian peace...for themselves.

re: #190 MandyManners
Maybe it was a stray bullet?
A good sniper would have put her lights out.

re: #193 rawmuse

Has anyone here ever read those 2 books by Obama? I did. What a total waste of time. Plus, who in hell writes an autobiography by age 40, with such a miniscule list of accomplishments? That takes some audacity, right there. Seems to me, that if the RNC wants some darts to throw at BHO, those two books are a target rich environment.

I hear he is writing another book to come out in September.

Can you guess the subject? Barack Obama!

re: #193 rawmuse

Who the hell writes 2 autobiographies? And don't you have to, you know, do something worth writing about before you write one?

Georgian relief operation hampered as aid workers ambushed

Two UN workers experienced at first hand just how unstable the conflict zone could be.

Robert Watkins, UN resident coordinator for Georgia, told AFP two UN-marked cars were taken by "paramilitary" gunmen halted security officials doing a safety assessment in Gori.

Meanwhile, the UN refugee organisation the UNHCR flew its second humanitarian flight to the Georgian capital carrying tents, jerry cans, blankets and telecommunications equipment.

re: #199 Kenneth

Who the hell writes 2 autobiographies? And don't you have to, you know, do something worth writing about before you write one?

Hell no, its all about what he thought about doing or intends to do. Isn't that enough?

85 Percent of Flying Public Wants to See Children in Separate Section of Plane

When asked "Should airlines have a section of the plane reserved for parents with babies and smaller children?" 10,170 or 58% of respondents answered, "Yes, they should have done this long ago," while 27% answered, "Yes, but they never will and it'll never work." Only 15% answered, "No, this is a bad idea."

How about the cargo hold?

I'm cutting and pasting this comment from the last thread. I'm pretty curious about this. any help would be great:

Has anybody seen any reliable numbers on casualities the Russians are taking in Georgia? I have read about 10 Russian planes and 40 tanks destroyed. No numbers on infantry casualities. The Red Army sucks across the board. I have a private theory that the Russians are getting pasted, but they have numbers on their side and can just overwhelm the Georgians. I think looking at Russian losses and how they occured would give great insight to the current Russian military capabilities.

thanks

re: #202 Killgore Trout

85 Percent of Flying Public Wants to See Children in Separate Section of Plane

How about the cargo hold?

Don't blame the kids. Blame the parents.

re: #191 jorline

^{_{knee-jerk OOPS! Sorry!}}

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re: #176 buzzsawmonkey

I'll never forget, when I was about 9 years old, a neighbor kid gave me a German Panzer Assault Badge, that his dad had picked up in the war. My dad saw it and was livid, he was a B-17 crewman in the 8th Air Force. He said get that piece of filth out of my sight, instanter, and I'd better not ever see it again. I hurled in in the woods as far as I could. Maybe some idiot archaeologist in the 32d century will dig it up and write a paper on German Armor in the wilds of Washington state.

re: #202 Killgore Trout

85 Percent of Flying Public Wants to See Children in Separate Section of Plane

How about the cargo hold?

First class, no charge!
Or I sit behind you with my 4!
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re: #205 LeePro

^{_{knee-jerk OOPS! Sorry!}}

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;)

re: #183 buzzsawmonkey

re: #184 karmic_inquisitor

Thanks mah Lizzahs!

re: #200 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Does that mean the UN will leave now.

Or is that only in Iraq after one bomb as an excuse NOT to help the US?

re: #185 Teacake!

Are you kidding me?!?!?!?! You really don't know how to answer any of that?

^{_{/sniff-sniff
sump'm smells funny!}}

re: #155 Kenneth

Holy crap! A female Georgian reporter is shot by a Russian sniper during a broadcast, and keeps on reporting!

Fox News' Steve Harrigan and his cameraman were shot at today, too.

re: #212 reine.de.tout

Fox News' Steve Harrigan and his cameraman were shot at today, too.

All just a distraction from Israel and the US targetting journalists.

re: #212 reine.de.tout

Fox News' Steve Harrigan and his cameraman were shot at today, too.

And that was in NY by some deranged moonbat.

/

re: #204 MandyManners

The parents can't help it any more than the kids can. I'm not blaming anybody but it would be nice to have child free flights.

As a break from the political kool-aid of A.D. 2008, here are some beautiful clouds over the San Gabriel Mountains.

(the Mt. Wilson towercam)

re: #212 reine.de.tout

Fox News' Steve Harrigan and his cameraman were shot at today, too.

That's one way to keep the news from getting out. Shoot a few journos and keep the rest out because they're targets.

re: #207 jcm

I still think one of those carnival ball pits in the cargo hold would be nice. The kids would love it.

re: #204 MandyManners

Well. when we all get old, those who will take care of us all will have been children once. So I think 85% of the public should be more understanding.

re: #199 Kenneth

Who the hell writes 2 autobiographies? And don't you have to, you know, do something worth writing about before you write one?

You just know that Barry's Chicago machine/Soros/60's radical handlers pushed him to write these books as they readied his background for the presidential bid. Then they could be referenced by the MSM as if they were a fill-in for a valid CV. Most people won't read the books, so I'll bet that many can be swayed by spin (and cherry-picked passages) that these bios contain info that add heft and substance to Barry's character and resume.

re: #218 Killgore Trout

I still think one of those carnival ball pits in the cargo hold would be nice. The kids would love it.

Too bad they can't do some zero-gee parabolas during the flight.

Just had a look for Homo floresiensis info. You're supported by my initial search zombie, I found nothing conclusive in dispute of the finding of an isolated offshoot hominid species that may have been on that island from as long as 800,000 years ago. I must have been channeling some speculation from shortly after the find made the news a few years ago.

re: #155 Kenneth

Holy crap! A female Georgian reporter is shot by a Russian sniper during a broadcast, and keeps on reporting!

That reporter was committing genocide against Ossetians during her broadcast. The Russian sniper peacekeeper shot her in self-defense.

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re: #216 Ojoe

As a break from the political kool-aid of A.D. 2008, here are some beautiful clouds over the San Gabriel Mountains.

(the Mt. Wilson towercam)

I give you the Seattle Space needle cam.
Not as picturesque, but you can pick the view.

re: #185 Teacake!

You can't respond to this person.

They are the eternal victim.

re: #185 Teacake!

Ow. My brain hurts...I think am stupider for having read that.

Did Obama really suggest that the UN impose sanctions on Russia for their incursion into Georgia? You know, the Russia that's a permanant member of the security council with veto power?

Tell her that Russia did what it did this past week because they're anticipating a BHO White House for the next four years.

re: #185 Teacake!

The fact that your friend likes the UN---well, that did it. He/she hasn't a clue what they're talking about. They have some serious researching to do.

re: #218 Killgore Trout

I still think one of those carnival ball pits in the cargo hold would be nice. The kids would love it.

People really ought to keep their children out of those...ever push a few balls aside and peek down into the floor of one. *shudder*
Sometimes, a river (yellow) runs through it.

Seriously nasty little pits.

re: #224 jcm

COOL !

from the Space Needle you can see Mt. Ranier, it will be fun to watch next time it goes off!

I booked marked it. Thanks!

re: #215 Killgore Trout

The parents can't help it any more than the kids can. I'm not blaming anybody but it would be nice to have child free flights.

The parents can force their kids to sit down and shut up and to not kick the backs of seats.

I don't know whether you are still chasing this bug, Charles. After about comment 16 or so, I had to go do some work, and when I came back and clicked "new comments," it went up to #185, and my #7 was gone, but Yooper's #1 is still there, even after clicking "new comments" two more times.

Or is that a feature?

re: #230 MandyManners

A good parent makes a better kid that is true.

re: #215 Killgore Trout

The parents can't help it any more than the kids can. I'm not blaming anybody but it would be nice to have child free flights.

That's not always true. On more than one occasion, I've been shocked by how many kids have been on a late night flight.

Not to mention the small (under 300 passenger) luxury cruise ship I was on a year ago where one couple brought their 8 year old daughter (clearly pulling her out of school for two weeks as it was not holiday time). There was literally nothing for the kid to do on the days at sea except run around the pool splashing and annoying the shit out of all the other passengers.

Some parents don't consider their kids - or their fellow travelers - at all.

re: #219 Ojoe

Well. when we all get old, those who will take care of us all will have been children once. So I think 85% of the public should be more understanding.

What's to understand about kids running around, shouting, kicking the backs of seats, et cet.?

re: #215 Killgore Trout

The parents can't help it any more than the kids can. I'm not blaming anybody but it would be nice to have child free flights.

That's why I have a strict "no kids" policy on my Gulfstream.

re: #62 jcm

Octopuses have two legs and six arms

Two legs and six arms? Sounds like Bill Clinton.

re: #221 The Other Les

Too bad they can't do some zero-gee parabolas during the flight.

Like I want to be covered in puke and stroke victims.

No thanks, I am somewhat familiar with the NASA "Vomit Comet".

re: #232 Ojoe

A good parent makes a better kid that is true.

For the most part, kids are what you make of them. Being a parent is a hard job. Sometimes I just wanna' throw up my hands and crawl under the bed but, I just grit my teeth and tie another knot at the end of my rope.

re: #235 Occasional Reader

That's why I have a strict "no kids" policy on my Gulfstream.

Heh.

re: #222 CyanSnowHawk

Just had a look for Homo floresiensis info. You're supported by my initial search zombie, I found nothing conclusive in dispute of the finding of an isolated offshoot hominid species that may have been on that island from as long as 800,000 years ago. I must have been channeling some speculation from shortly after the find made the news a few years ago.

When the skeleton was first found, some doubters claimed it was just a "short guy" who was living on the island -- not a separate lineage. But further finds and more research proved it was an offshoot hominid line that evolved to become very small (along with the elephants) before (supposedly) going extinct.

re: #158 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I have high hopes for Defiance.

Did you read the comments for that YouTube post? Whoa. The Jew-haters are busy, busy, busy...

re: #215 Killgore Trout

The parents can't help it any more than the kids can. I'm not blaming anybody but it would be nice to have child free flights.

I don't know if they still exist, but El Al has "Children Flights" with entertainment (clowns and such) on board.

re: #185 Teacake!

Furthermore, for so much faith in the U.N. what are we supposed to do, when we are abiding by the cease-fire agreement brokered by the U.N., Hussein violates the conditions daily, make a supposed humanitarian deal with oil for food, only to find out the U.N. is whoring the program to their benefit while the people of Iraq who are supposed to be relieved by it still suffer?

Biggest scam (in dollars) in history, totally in contradiction to the conditions imposed by the U.N. at the end of the war, as well as subsequent sanctions, all the while they are siphoning money off of a program that was meant to counter something thy imposed to begin with.

Ah, my pressure is reaching a boiling stage right now.

For those of you who don't own a Gulfstream, I recommend noise-cancelling headphones/earbuds.

Absolutely essential flying equipment.

I mean, for you guys. On my Gulfstream, I don't really need them; I just ask the masseuse to turn up the sound system a little.

re: #157 Ben Hur

There is a famous (I think German) European film depicting one section of the SS murdering another because they were mainly homosexual.

Have you heard of that before?

Yes, it is a rather famous incident along the road of Hitler's rise to power.

re: #242 Spiny Norman

Did you read the comments for that YouTube post? Whoa. The Jew-haters are busy, busy, busy...

I ignore youtube comments

re: #242 Spiny Norman

Did you read the comments for that YouTube post? Whoa. The Jew-haters are busy, busy, busy...

What is is about YouTube that attracts these people?

re: #230 MandyManners

The parents can force their kids to sit down and shut up and to not kick the backs of seats.

My wife and I do that, and little Hawk is pretty good about it. But he is our only one.

OMG I'm just so glad to be online. Anyone else having any connection issues since the microsoft update of last night. I couldn't get on Firefox or IE for about an hour. To top that off, my ISP is hanging up on everyone.

re: #245 Occasional Reader

I put my earplug in as soon as I get to the gate area. Adults chattering away on their cell phones is just as bad as crying babies.

re: #243 Ben Hur

I don't know if they still exist, but El Al has "Children Flights" with entertainment (clowns and such) on board.

Clowns, flying, crowds and a confined space... it's like some sort of phobia shock treatment.

re: #248 Occasional Reader

What is is about YouTube that attracts these people?

The complete lack of anything stopping them from posting that crap.

re: #252 Occasional Reader

Clowns, flying, crowds and a confined space... it's like some sort of phobia shock treatment.

Yeah.

I see your point!

re: #234 MandyManners

What's to understand about kids running around, shouting, kicking the backs of seats, et cet.?

I understand those parents are too permissive. Aren't they Mandy.

re: #251 Killgore Trout

I put my earplug in as soon as I get to the gate area. Adults chattering away on their cell phones is just as bad as crying babies.

I know. Sometimes my kitchen staff in the galley on the Gulfstream can get awfully chatty. I've had to ask the masseuse to flog them. Thing is, I'm not sure if that dissuades them or not.

re: #252 Occasional Reader

They could turn on a strobe light and release a bunch of snakes to complete the effect.

re: #46 A Kiwi Infidel

Dont think so, I missed it, I had read it but didnt trigger any alarms so cant remember what the offense may have been.

It can be saying "first" or it can be saying "I'm outa here".

re: #253 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The complete lack of anything stopping them from posting that crap.

Dinging the fuckers down gives me a moment of satisfaction... until I realize it's basically a useless gesture.

re: #251 Killgore Trout

I put my earplug in as soon as I get to the gate area. Adults chattering away on their cell phones is just as bad as crying babies.

Speaking of which, does anyone know the status of the cell phone ban on flights? I heard there was talk of encouraging fist fights lifting it.